Hayden Panettiere Tries To Save Dolphins in Japan

NBC’s “Heroes” star, Hayden Panettiere zipped up a wet suit and joined a group of anti-whaling protesters called The Sea Shepherd. They tried to stop a boatful of hunters from killing a school of dolphins near Taiji, a port city in Japan’s infamous highly secret dolphin drive.

The top secret dolphin hunts aren’t covered by the international ban on whale killing and however much international condemnation it brings the Japanese fishermen yet again are defending their act in the name of culture. Herding thousands of dolphins into a cove and then bludgeoning them to death is a tradition well over 400 years old.